“Dinner for one”, also called in German “Der Geburtstag neunzigste” (the ninetieth birthday) is a television production from chain NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) in 1963, written by British author Lauri Wylie initially for the theater in the 1920s. This is a sketch of short duration (11 minutes) in which two British comediants Freddie Frinton (servant) with his partner May Warden (Miss Sophie) they stage a dinner service to celebrate the 90th birthday of Mrs. .
The film is a television classic New Year’s Eve in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Austria, in some countries leads to repeat more than a dozen times on different TV channels. In Norway it’s part of Christmas tradition, and is broadcast on the evening of December 23. In all these countries are usually put the full version in English.

The dinner takes place in an environment where the English lady, Miss Sophie, often invited each year to mark the occasion with her closest friends: Mr Pommeroy, Mr Winterbottom, Sir Toby and Admiral von Schneider. The problem is that Miss Sophie is a considerable age and has outlived all her friends, being alone in the celebration.